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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Thomisus  Walckenaer, 1805   7 species

Thomisus modestus Blackwall, 1870

Description
Male

Prosoma pale brownish yellow, glossy. Sternum heart-shaped. Legs pale yellowish with red-brown. Opisthosoma oviform, light yellowish-red, glossy, lighter ventrally, dorsally with a series of 6 slightly depressed, light brown spots on both sides.

Prosoma length: 1.6 mm, prosoma width: 1.6 mm.

Body length male: 3.2 mm
Female

Female unknown.

Additional information

Species inquirenda per Pantini & Isaia (2018).

No illustrations provided by the author.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
Distribution List
Italy  Removed (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
22-03-2022 Image insert
22-03-2022 Distribution update Detail
12-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail